Monthly Archives: December 2006

Wikipedia co-founder to come after search engines.

I’m not convinced by his Search Wikia project. Google can still sleep like a log at nights —at least, Google’s Matt Cutts will.

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Legalized Internet Gaming in New York

A buried NY Post article has the details, so far, just for horses: Racing and Wagering Board yesterday issued guidelines for internet wagering in N.Y. State, which becomes legal Jan. 22. NYRA is optimistic it will have its internet betting … Continue reading

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Sports vs. Non-Sports Divestiture

Regarding the Trade Exchange Network’s announcement that it is divesting its sports related business, this is what I have cross-posted on CaveatBettor I don’t really like this development, because it appears to bifurcate capital and traders into separate, smaller universes … Continue reading

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Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived.

The debate can finally be laid to rest.

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Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks. – REDUX

Last time, I told you about TED 2007 and I noticed Nathan Myhrvold (former MicroSoft CTO –he founded MicroSoft Research) in the speaker list. That prompted me to visit his site, Intellectual Ventures, home of his “invention company”: Intellectual Ventures … Continue reading

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Blogger Robin Hanson finally listens to Jakob Nielsen. + Branding

It was time. I notice that blogger Robin Hanson puts his most important sentence in bold, now. GOOD. You’re making real progress, man. (For example, see his last blog post: Benefit of Doubt = Bias.) – I got criticized last … Continue reading

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Trading Technologies – Order-entry software platform for retail futures traders

In early 2007, Trading Technologies International will introduce TT_TRADER, a high-performance order-entry software platform designed specifically for retail futures traders.

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TradeSports trader to TEN CEO John Delaney: WINK, WINK.

From a TradeSports trader: [...] I like the idea of this [split] and [fully] understand why [it's] being done. — Ah. – Could… Could it… Could it be that… Could it be that the true reason for the TradeSports-InTrade reorganizing … Continue reading

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Add search capabilities to Google Reader

Life Hacker on how to add search capabilities to Google Reader: The process requires you to export your subscription list, create your own search engine with Google Co-Op, then import the sub list. Pretty clever workaround, though you’ll have to … Continue reading

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The answer from Inkling Markets

… has sent this (in response to the previous piece): Hi Chris, The reason the names have become the way they are are because we now have multiple products, so we found ourselves in a situation where “Inkling” is a … Continue reading

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